Togame

Do you still have a link to the youtube video and the reddit post? This made me really curious to see the kettle in question.

That side will also become numb.

Obviously the opposite side should become numb, right?

Let's say you do not want to breastfeed, and you have a good reason for that. Maybe breastfeeding really hurts your nipples, maybe you can't seem to produce enough milk, maybe it is just really inconvenient given your lifestyle. I would think that this would also be correlated with breastfeeding being a bad choice for you in particular. If it hurts, maybe the bonding doesn't work. If you don't produce enough milk, the quality might also be bad, or maybe slight underfeeding causes problems. If it is inconvenient, maybe you will get postpartum depression. It might sound cliche, but this article makes me think that 'pick whichever you feel like' is indeed the right algorithm for this.

So let's say you are (sort of) an Effective Altruist, I think that describes many people here, including me. And let's say that you believe that hunger and desperation makes otherwise decent people do horrible things. (I do believe so) And let's say that you buy supplies over years, which just gets absorbed by the current supply chain and causes no shortages. Then the net effect of your supplies being stolen during a disaster is still that someone gets to eat, who would otherwise just not get to, and that person is probably of average decency. That just se... (read more)

Maybe there's some fancy statistical methods that mitigate this, but from what I know about study design, if 9 women are happy because their period is more manageable/gone, and one woman feels very down because of the hormones, that might show up as 'no effect on mood', and then this gets communicated as 'it definitely does not have an effect on mood, we did proper studies' even if there is a sizable minority that gets reliably suicidal on it. Not sure if there is a name for this, but I always try to keep this in mind for any drug. Humans are sometimes just very different in how they metabolize things.

I feel like the AI is unduly helped by the format here. I don't actually consume a whole book one quote at a time, and that is also not the reading experience the author wrote for.

For example, with the literary fiction one, the story about the boy and the church feels sort of complete, like a micro-story, and I think that might be why I prefer it in isolation. You also don't need to understand anything about these characters before reading, they are just the boy and the grandfather, and that is all they are and all you need to know. But with the quote fro... (read more)

First, I'm not a therapist, and I don't have OCD so free free to disregard, but I had a thought that might be useful.

Your compulsion is you worrying about X risk, but specifically not doing anything real about X risk, right? Like, the problem is not that you are working on X risk too hard, the problem is that your worries prevent you from doing much of any sort of work. I would try to concentrate on noticing that difference. Like, say you don't worry about X risk for a day, does that mean you did less on it? If not, then your worries probably don't do anyt... (read more)